Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Alfred P. Sloan

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
George Leonard

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
Christine Lahti

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
Nafisa Joseph

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.
Michel Patini

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
Arthur Lydiard

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
T-Bone Burnett

First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
LaToya London

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
Conrad Veidt

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
Scott Hamilton

Global competition is about winners and losers.
David Korten

Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Ludwig Borne